Confederate re-enactors stand on the ramparts of Fort Moultrie are silhouetted in the rising sun to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina. The first shot that began the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 in Charleston harbor.

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Students react during clashes with police officers in Algiers. Thousands of students were marching in Algeria's capital to demand the resignation of the education minister in the latest anti-government protests to sweep across the Arab world. The students are defying a longtime ban on protests in Algiers, a measure adopted at the height of Algeria's Islamic insurgency and were blocked by police while trying to reach the government's headquarters.

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A customer holds up a plastic keychain containing two live goldfish at a roadside stall in Beijing, China. Live fishes, small tortoises and young giant salamanders are sealed in plastic pouches and sold as keychains for 10 yuan (US$1.5) each. The vendor claims a special liquid inside provides oxygen and nutrients for the creatures.

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Republican soldiers relax around a bottle of champagne taken from the presidential residence one day earlier, as forces allied with Alassane Ouattara captured strongman Laurent Gbagbo, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. President Ouattara called on all fighters to put down their arms now that the longtime strongman has been captured after his refusal to cede power sparked violence leaving bodies piled at morgues.

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People look down at a burnt car during protests in Mexico City. Members of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) burned cars and blocked roads during a protest to demand the reinstatement of the state-owned company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (Central Light and Power Company) that supplied electricity to Mexico City and its surrounding area.

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The newly renovated Bahai Shrine of the Bab and the gardens is seen in Haifa, Israel. The adherents of the Bahai faith unveiled their newly renovated holy site on Tuesday, drawing attention to one of the Holy Land's lesser-known religious sects. The renovation of the Shrine of the Bab, a United Nations-designated World Heritage site, lasted two-and-a-half-years and cost $6 million dollars.

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A Yemeni girl being held up by anti-government protestors shouts slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has welcomed mediation efforts by the regional bloc of oil-rich Arab nations even as he rejected their calls for him to step down, in a blow to regional efforts to resolve the weeks of turmoil that have been wracking this impoverished Arab nation.

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff shakes hands with her Chinese counterpart Hu Jintaoa fter signing a joint communique at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer will sell 35 E190 planes to two Chinese airlines in a deal to be signed during Rousseff's visit to China.

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Volker Kraft decorates a tree with 9,800 Easter eggs at the garden of pensionar couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany. The Kraft family have decorated their tree for Easter for more than forty years.

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Rebel fighter Abdul-Hakim Jinjan, 42, who lost his leg before the current conflict, walks on crutches to the pickup truck where he mans an anti-aircraft gun, on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya.

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A supporter of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) confronts Mexican policemen, at the building where the company is located and that was confiscated by the Government in 2009 in Mexico City.

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The Boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, explodes atop a bonfire in the Sechselaeuten square in Zurich. As the bells of St. Peter's church chime six o'clock, the bonfire below the "Boeoegg" is set alight and mounted guildsmen gallop around the pyre to the tune of the Sechselaeuten March. The faster the head of the "Boeoegg", the symbol of winter, catches fire and explodes, the warmer and more beautiful the summer will be.

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US soldiers from 3rd Battalion 2nd Marine Regimental Combat Team 8 return to Camp Pheonix from a patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Afghanistan said recently its forces would take over security in areas including the Helmand capital from NATO this summer, launching a transition as foreign troops plan an exit by the end of 2014.

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Performer Reuben Zalme hangs from a pole during a performance by the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) final year students in collaboration with the Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe of China, titled 'Beautifully Imperfect', in Melbourne.

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A boat of migrants arriving on the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy. Reports state that Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on 12 April 2011 downplayed comments made the day before by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni about Italy leaving the European Union. Maroni had only been expressing 'his strong disappointment' amid a row over migration.

Soldiers clean a highway in Tainan, southern Taiwan, during the Han Kuang drill. The Taiwanese air force used a closed-off freeway as a runway in a rare drill simulating a Chinese surprise attack that had wiped out its major airbases.

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A Palestinian man rides on a horse at sunset on Gaza's beach.

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(L to R) Samantha Vazquez, Claudia Elias, Maribel Zavala, Gina Aguilar, Ofelia Fernandez and Rosa Maria Arcos, flight attendants with Mexicana Airlines, pose for the photographers during the presentation of the Playboy magazine issue with their pictures in Mexico City. Six former Mexicana flight attendants who were invited by Playboy magazine to pose in the nude said that they did it not only for the money, but also to attract attention on the economical problems of their airline in terms to keep their jobs.

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An aerial view of Kaieteur Falls in southern Guyana. Located on the Pitaro Rivers, Kaieteur Falls is considered one of the most powerful in the world when combining the height of the main plunge of 741 feet , with the great volume of water.